Old_Man_Harper

On Series X, the big update to BG3 has given me the urge to do a Dark Urge run, but first I’ll finish up with Last of Us part 1 on PS5.

It mainly seems to be hairstyles, dice colours and eye colours. I noticed that the most popular mods people were looking for seemed to be ‘explicit content’…

Same here! I very quickly pressed start on three Game Pass games and got it before it changes its mind again! 😂

Never mind that, but I am cross that the rewards updated to a new month today when it said they’d do so on the 7th! I missed out on the 1,000 point Quest Completionist reward, which I only needed one weekly reward to get. ☹️

Open Roads got some middling-to-poor reviews, but I enjoyed the story and it has stuck in my head.

I thought Judgement was the best story of the Gears games and was a complete blast when I recently co-opped the campaign with friends. They did drop the ball a bit with whatever they called the Horde mode though.

I’ve downloaded it. When Starfield came out I was too engrossed with BG3 to start it and then they promised loads of upgrades, patches etc. so I’ve waited on those before playing. This seems as good a time as any to have a go.

Wargroove 2 is terrific! I’ve got Age of Mythology downloaded, but there really is a lot on the backlog pile at the moment, so I haven’t played it yet.

More Wargroove 2 on Game Pass in the morning. This afternoon I’m showing the PS5 some love by playing the remaster of The Last of Us which has appeared on PS+.

Perhaps an enterprising modder can come up with something to convert every character in every game in to a gruff, bald Space Marine to keep some people happy…

Fear the Spotlight looks interesting.

Wargroove 2 on Game Pass. Very addictive GBA-style turn-based game with elements of Fire Emblem and Advance Wars. Quite tough too - it really makes you use terrain and critical hit advantages to win.

I’ve been playing this today. Very good! It reminds me a bit of the old GBA Fire Emblem games I used to enjoy, with some elements of Advance Wars.

I expect she’s got her eye on his job! She’s 46, he’s 56 and at that age a fellow - especially a fellow who’s done well for himself - might well be thinking about downshifting or retirement. I know I would!

@abe_hikura - That actually did happen with Deathloop and Ghostwire…

But are people really going to complain about this when there’s already an S/X enhancement? I suppose it will probably wring a few quid out of PS5 owners who want the latest, greatest version.

@Elbow I should probably add that the voice acting is pretty ‘Allo ‘Allo! but it didn’t spoil my fun.

@Elbow it’s quite XCOM like, although there doesn’t appear to be permadeath, at least not in the difficulty I’m playing at - downed troops are timed out for three turns and if they are downed again they retreat. The missions are things like blow up a bridge or ambush a convoy. Your squad levels up with experience and you have to rotate them for wounds or fatigue or their action points are reduced. There’s a strategic level (again like XCOM) where you have to control areas of France and a German Partisan-hunter unit is also after you.

I wouldn’t describe it as being as polished as XCOM, but I found it engrossing and ended up playing it all weekend (and then bought it).

I ended up buying Classified: France ‘44 after the last free play day, I think I’ve got a few too many games on the go now, especially with some big releases coming in the near future!

I didn’t mind the timer but the psychopath fights were generally far too hard to be fun and I ended up ignoring the missions that involved them.

I have to say that when I played it I thought it was sailing very close to the wind! I wonder if now that the game is a success, this lawsuit will be more of a cash rinse than an attempt to stop it.

I think it’s good that someone is making games specifically for kids. There are hundreds of releases for older players every year.

It is possibly worth pointing out that the ‘game year’ tends to be backloaded and there may well be things coming in the next few months that change everyone’s mind!

Hellblade 2 is my favourite, really enjoyed that one. I found it totally immersive and the only game I’ve played on Series X or PS5 to date that lives up to the ‘next gen’ billing.

Perhaps someone could explain to him that countries other than Japan exist?

I’ve been playing Classified: France ‘44 on the Free Try Day. It’s basically a WW2 XCOM - you build a squad, do turn-based missions to do things like blow up bridges or raid supply dumps in the countdown to D-Day. There’s also a strategic level, where you have to gain strength in regions and grow relationships with other resistance factions. Pretty good I think!

I had a GameCube but I bought my mate’s Xbox plus games off him for £50 - he was raising funds for a 360. I traded most of the games in for GTA San Andreas (I can remember looking enviously at the PS2 owners queuing for it in Game while I looked at the sparse selection of ‘Cube games!) and played it and played it and played it…

@jesse_dylan I think I’ll try that one too. TBS + WW2! What’s not to like?

The civil service may be relatively dull, but at least they don’t lay us all off if we implement an unsuccessful policy…

Missing out on spending a lot of money? My PS5 hasn’t really done enough to justify what I paid for it yet, so I’m not inclined to buy a more expensive one.

I don’t mind ‘fail if you are caught’ missions, in fact I quite like them. I haven’t found the stealth missions I’ve played so far in Outlaws too challenging. It’s satisfying to get in and out of somewhere without firing a shot or being seen at all.

Some 7 Days to Die - did the day 105 blood moon and died. Need to improve the base I’ve been using for these levels.

Also had the chance to put some more time into Star Wars Outlaws, which I’m now enjoying a lot after the initial ‘what am I doing’ phase.

It’s a bit like Cyberpunk 2077 - they keep promising new features and I keep holding off from playing it until they arrive!

Heartbreaking for the developers. We all know what’s coming next for them. What a rotten industry it seems to be.

Bit disappointed to learn that the co-op is only 3 players. The group I play with is generally 4 or 5. ☹️

Sounds great, I hope I can persuade my Horde pals to get it too - after 750+ hours of playing Gears 5 Horde it is getting pretty stale!

I do enjoy the train sim games, they are oddly relaxing.

For all the negativity (to which I admit contributing a bit) I have a feeling that this might turn out to be a really good game.

I started Dustborn on Series X - it sounded like the sort of thing I might like and happily it is. I wasn’t keen on the characters at first - they seemed too ‘about what you’d expect’ in a game and the story throws you in at the deep end a bit, but they become more sympathetic once you learn their backstories and what is going on.

I’m also going to progress a bit in 7 Days to Die. My massacre of the day 56 blood moon horde from my ranger tower caused overconfidence on my part, demonstrated when the day 63 horde brought the tower crashing down on top of me.

I do hope that at some point they will announce something - anything - about this game that makes me want to play it.

Atomfall looks interesting!

So it’s out on PS5 for £70 in April? Whatever. 🤷‍♂️ I’ll have finished it on Game Pass in December. In six months’ time it’ll be old news, chip wrapping.

Dustborn looks alright, might check it out. Quantic Dream games tend to get ‘Marmite’ reviews, but I’ve enjoyed the ones I’ve played.

I’ve been getting on with 7 Days to Die. I finally acquired the ability to craft a mini motorcycle! On the downside, I managed to spoil a long run of staying alive by accidentally falling off the ranger tower I was defending on a blood moon night.☹️

Get rid of the reviews for Game Pass games or require a minimum play-time or a purchase before allowing them. That would hopefully get rid of the idiot toddlers telling us that a game they haven’t played is ‘woke DEI trash’.

Metro had an interesting point about FH5 - it has a finite lifespan due to the licensed properties in it (see FH4) so why not cash in?

I wonder if all these new delays are because the games aren’t finished or because the developers don’t want to release into a crowded marketplace? Either way, I’ll still get to play them in the end so I’m not too fussed.

Playing This Bed We Made, which I picked up after reading the story on this site the other day. So far so good, as it’s set in Montreal I chose French dialogue with English subtitles.

I’ll also probably do some more on 7 Days to Die, I’m on day 32 now, a lot better armed and equipped and now starting to take on some more challenging places.

If I have time, I may also take a look at the remastered Dooms.

I hadn’t heard of this, but it sounds like my sort of thing, so I bought it.

@GeeEssEff I thought the landing training was pretty good, but it’s still the hardest thing about flying! I often seem to run out of runway…

I bought the new 1.0 version and am loving it. If you enjoyed Grounded or The Long Dark you will certainly enjoy it. I’m just coming up to 28 days and have come to the conclusion that it’s better to have a separate base for the Blood Moon nights - I don’t want my nice home base getting trashed!